Yeah, up here, and the other areas I notice where metal roofs outnumber others, the colors are dark green, darkish blue and dark brownish red (there are a smattering of "natural" metal/silver and white-ish)... interesting data you posted, but I'm having a hard time accepting that Sacramento has more hours/days of sun than any other place listed except Phoenix (I believe the Phoenix part)... not sure I've ever seen the sun when I've been in Sacramento area, which is just northish and east of the Bay Area which is notoriously foggy/cloudy and yet as listed has more sunny/clear days than San Diego??? Hmmmm.... not saying the data is wrong, but it goes against my perceptions and experiences by a lot...
Wonder if the data is skewed by the exact location where the official measurement is taken... for example, the closest official weather station to our house in San Diego Co. (we're actually 35 miles north of the city) is in our next-door neighboring city of Oceanside and it is located on the seaward side of the harbor, whereas the official San Diego station is at Lindbergh Field... local weather reports always peg daily temps 5-10 degrees cooler in Oceanside than Lindbergh Field because the temps next to the water are always lower than the ones even just a few miles inland (and despite being across the road from San Diego Harbor, the airport is several miles east of the actual coast) -- the weather in San Diego is typically significantly different from the weather at our house...
And up here, it can be raining like an Old Testament end of the world prophecy in one spot and 3-5 miles away in any direction, it might be sunny... having spent portions of every year of my life up here, I only trust looking up at the sky to determine which way the clouds, if any, are moving, combined with air temp and can pretty accurately forecast the weather in that spot for the next 6-12 hours -- 24-48 hrs. if I check a barometer (does anyone use barometers any more to predict weather? I do, and have 3 of them)... local weather reports are an open joke so many of the small town radio stations and the 1-2 TV stations in the region actually hire comedians to deliver the weather reports on the local news -- the best free entertainment in the region and EVERYONE tunes in... not for actual weather forecasts, but to laugh along with everyone else in the studio... simple pleasures for simple people like me... <ggg> |
